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The Graduate School of Linguistics of University Denis Diderot Paris 7 is organizing the 9th doctoral meeting in Linguistics, on October 17th-18th, 2005. This meeting promotes exchange and communication among PhD students of different fields of interest in Linguistics. All topics are suitable for presentation, no theme is imposed, and every level of analysis are suitable.

The meeting is composed of oral presentations (20 minutes of presentation and 10 minutes for questions) and posters presentations (5 minutes of oral presentation first).

Official langages are English and French.

NB : A partial refond of transport and hostel cost is possible for the students who don't come from the Paris region.

CALENDAR Abstracts should be posted before June 1st, 2005. Notifications of acceptance will be sent to the authors the August 1st, 2005. The meeting is October 17th-18th, 2005.

TENDER MODALITIES PhD students have to post a one or two page summary to the organization committee before June 1st, 2005. This summary shall present : - the title of communication - the fields of research (syntax, ...) - the keywords - some bibliographical references Abstracts must be anonymous. Texts should be in PDF or Postscript format and joined in an e-mail at adl2005linguist.jussieu.fr. The page layout to be used is shown on the meeting site.

Authors have to indicate in their mails the title of the communication, their names, the field(s) of linguistics they are working in, and their choice of presentation (oral presentation or poster).

Abstracts will be evaluated by a scientific team of researchers and teacher-researchers.

In this workshop we are interested in pointing at successes and failures of the integration of lexical cohesion in real-world IR applications such as document and passage retrieval, question answering, topic segmentation and text summarization. On the one hand, lexical cohesion has received much attention in Information Retrieval research during its more than 30-year old history, but so far with mixed results. On the other hand, a considerable amount of research has been devoted to this subject, both in terms of theory and practice, by the Natural Language Processing community, but with limited evaluation in real-world applications. This workshop is intended to bring together IR and NLP researchers and discuss what has been achieved in this area, to establish common themes between different approaches, and to discuss future research directions.

[2] Target Audience:

This workshop is intended to bring together IR and NLP researchers working on all areas of information retrieval and using lexical associations in information retrieval applications. The objective is to discuss what has been achieved in this area, to establish common themes between different approaches, and to discuss future research directions.

Papers should follow SIGIR 2005 instructions (http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/eventos/sigir2005/). Papers should be submitted electronically in pdf format only to Rosie Jones [jonesryahoo-inc.com]. The following URL transforms postscript files to pdf files (http://www.ps2pdf.com/). The subject line should be ''SIGIR 2005 ELECTRA WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION''.

Because reviewing is blind, no author information should be included as part of the paper (i.e. the names of the authors and references that could identify the authors). An identification page must be sent in a separate email with the subject line ''SIGIR 2005 ELECTRA WORKSHOP ID PAGE'' and must include title, author(s), keywords, page number and name and email of the contact author.

Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be emailed to the contact author shortly after receipt.